prophet 音標拼音: [pr'ɑfət]
n . 預言者,先知,提倡者
預言者,先知,提倡者
prophet n 1 :
an authoritative person who divines the future [
synonym :
{
prophet }, {
prophesier }, {
oracle }, {
seer }, {
vaticinator }]
2 :
someone who speaks by divine inspiration ;
someone who is an interpreter of the will of God Prophet \
Proph "
et \,
n . [
F .
proph [`
e ]
te ,
L .
propheta ,
fr .
Gr . ?,
literally ,
one who speaks for another ,
especially ,
one who speaks for a god an interprets his will to man ,
fr . ?
to say beforehand ; ?
for ,
before ?
to say or speak .
See {
Fame }. ]
[
1913 Webster ]
1 .
One who prophesies ,
or foretells events ;
a predicter ;
a foreteller .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name ,
or announce future events ,
as ,
Moses ,
Elijah ,
etc .
[
1913 Webster ]
3 .
An interpreter ;
a spokesman . [
R .] --
Ex .
vii .
1 .
[
1913 Webster ]
4 . (
Zool .)
A mantis .
[
1913 Webster ]
{
School of the prophets } (
Anc .
Jewish Hist .),
a school or college in which young men were educated and trained for public teachers or members of the prophetic order .
These students were called sons of the prophets .
[
1913 Webster ]
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "
prophet ":
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Quixote ,
astrologer ,
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calamity howler ,
clairvoyant ,
crystal gazer ,
daydreamer ,
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diviner ,
divineress ,
dreamer ,
dreamer of dreams ,
enthusiast ,
escapist ,
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foreknower ,
foreseer ,
foreshower ,
foreteller ,
fortune -
teller ,
fortuneteller ,
geomancer ,
haruspex ,
idealist ,
lotus -
eater ,
oracle ,
palmist ,
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prefigurer ,
presager ,
prognosticator ,
prophesier ,
prophet of doom ,
prophetess ,
psychic ,
pythoness ,
religious prophets ,
rhapsodist ,
romancer ,
romantic ,
romanticist ,
seer ,
seeress ,
sibyl ,
soothsayer ,
utopian ,
utopianist ,
utopianizer ,
vates ,
visionary ,
warlock ,
weather prophet ,
wishful thinker ,
witch Prophet (
Heb .
nabi ,
from a root meaning "
to bubble forth ,
as from a fountain ,"
hence "
to utter ",
comp .
Ps .
45 :
1 ).
This Hebrew word is the first and the most generally used for a prophet .
In the time of Samuel another word ,
_ro '
eh_ , "
seer ",
began to be used (
1 Sam .
9 :
9 ).
It occurs seven times in reference to Samuel .
Afterwards another word ,
_hozeh_ , "
seer " (
2 Sam .
24 :
11 ),
was employed .
In 1 Ch .
29 :
29 all these three words are used : "
Samuel the seer (
ro '
eh ),
Nathan the prophet (
nabi '),
Gad the seer "
(
hozeh ).
In Josh .
13 :
22 Balaam is called (
Heb .)
a _kosem_ "
diviner ,"
a word used only of a false prophet .
The "
prophet "
proclaimed the message given to him ,
as the "
seer "
beheld the vision of God . (
See Num .
12 :
6 ,
8 .)
Thus a prophet was a spokesman for God ;
he spake in God '
s name and by his authority (
Ex .
7 :
1 ).
He is the mouth by which God speaks to men (
Jer .
1 :
9 ;
Isa .
51 :
16 ),
and hence what the prophet says is not of man but of God (
2 Pet .
1 :
20 ,
21 ;
comp .
Heb .
3 :
7 ;
Acts 4 :
25 ;
28 :
25 ).
Prophets were the immediate organs of God for the communication of his mind and will to men (
Deut .
18 :
18 ,
19 ).
The whole Word of God may in this general sense be spoken of as prophetic ,
inasmuch as it was written by men who received the revelation they communicated from God ,
no matter what its nature might be .
The foretelling of future events was not a necessary but only an incidental part of the prophetic office .
The great task assigned to the prophets whom God raised up among the people was "
to correct moral and religious abuses ,
to proclaim the great moral and religious truths which are connected with the character of God ,
and which lie at the foundation of his government ."
Any one being a spokesman for God to man might thus be called a prophet .
Thus Enoch ,
Abraham ,
and the patriarchs ,
as bearers of God '
s message (
Gen .
20 :
7 ;
Ex .
7 :
1 ;
Ps .
105 :
15 ),
as also Moses (
Deut .
18 :
15 ;
34 :
10 ;
Hos .
12 :
13 ),
are ranked among the prophets .
The seventy elders of Israel (
Num .
11 :
16 -
29 ), "
when the spirit rested upon them ,
prophesied ;"
Asaph and Jeduthun "
prophesied with a harp " (
1 Chr .
25 :
3 ).
Miriam and Deborah were prophetesses (
Ex .
15 :
20 ;
Judg .
4 :
4 ).
The title thus has a general application to all who have messages from God to men .
But while the prophetic gift was thus exercised from the beginning ,
the prophetical order as such began with Samuel .
Colleges , "
schools of the prophets ",
were instituted for the training of prophets ,
who were constituted ,
a distinct order (
1 Sam .
19 :
18 -
24 ;
2 Kings 2 :
3 ,
15 ;
4 :
38 ),
which continued to the close of the Old Testament .
Such "
schools "
were established at Ramah ,
Bethel ,
Gilgal ,
Gibeah ,
and Jericho .
The "
sons "
or "
disciples "
of the prophets were young men (
2 Kings 5 :
22 ;
9 :
1 ,
4 )
who lived together at these different "
schools " (
4 :
38 -
41 ).
These young men were taught not only the rudiments of secular knowledge ,
but they were brought up to exercise the office of prophet , "
to preach pure morality and the heart -
felt worship of Jehovah ,
and to act along and co -
ordinately with the priesthood and monarchy in guiding the state aright and checking all attempts at illegality and tyranny ."
In New Testament times the prophetical office was continued .
Our Lord is frequently spoken of as a prophet (
Luke 13 :
33 ;
24 :
19 ).
He was and is the great Prophet of the Church .
There was also in the Church a distinct order of prophets (
1 Cor .
12 :
28 ;
Eph .
2 :
20 ;
3 :
5 ),
who made new revelations from God .
They differed from the "
teacher ,"
whose office it was to impart truths already revealed .
Of the Old Testament prophets there are sixteen ,
whose prophecies form part of the inspired canon .
These are divided into four groups :
(
1 .)
The prophets of the northern kingdom (
Israel ),
viz .,
Hosea ,
Amos ,
Joel ,
Jonah .
(
2 .)
The prophets of Judah ,
viz .,
Isaiah ,
Jeremiah ,
Obadiah ,
Micah ,
Nahum ,
Habakkuk ,
Zephaniah .
(
3 .)
The prophets of Captivity ,
viz .,
Ezekiel and Daniel .
(
4 .)
The prophets of the Restoration ,
viz .,
Haggai ,
Zechariah ,
and Malachi .
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